Trying to make sure that all the right people can access secure and reliable information in any location, at any time, at an acceptable speed, is often a headache for IT people.

There are efficient ways to optimise and secure the information flow, so that these problems find a satisfactory solution.

Locate, classify and prioritise applications and user access

Distributed enterprises are spending a large part of their IT budgets just to keep business applications up and running.

Also, the proliferation of harmful or non-essential applicationss (banner ads, P2P, etc) continues to consume bandwidth, so incremental network and bandwidth upgrades do not always solve performance issues.

To clearly see and control what applications are consuming your bandwidth, you need intelligent visibility across your extended network. The appropriate solution makes it possible to

• discover, classify and prioritize applications, content and user access in real time.
• adapt bandwidth at the application level according to your requirements
• measure user response times
• monitor voice and video quality in real time
• manage, meter or block recreational application traffic to reclaim network bandwidth

Accelerate applications and data transfers in real time

You can accelerate your critical applications by optimizing traffic, conserving bandwidth and measuring or blocking recreational applications. You can also identify and control unauthorized network traffic such as online ads, inappropriate web surfing, web-borne malware and customer-designated applications.

This accelerates the delivery of internal, external and latency-sensitive real-time applications to distributed users across the extended network :

• LAN-like speed for your applications
• Excellent performance
• Drastic reduction of bandwidth costs
• Acceleration of live and on-demand rich media, as well as SSL-encrypted traffic